Sentences with phrase «carry driver mutations»

Thus even the rare subclones carry driver mutations that contribute to cancer cell survival.

Not exact matches

We have developed a sequencing based approach to show similar in human tissues, finding around a third of cells in normal sun exposed facial skin carry cancer driver gene mutations.

With a few exceptions, cancers typically carry more than one driver mutation, sometimes five, ten, or more, and these driver mutations do not necessarily assort randomly.